AIN London Event - Slides and comments from April 20th 2009 event with Cyriel Kortleven

[Belina Raffy]

Hi Everyone,

As a follow up to Cyriel's great AIN London event on creativity on April 20th, Cyriel has sent through some slides (see attached).

To those that attended - what was your favourite exercise/moment? I really liked the exercise which involved walking towards/away from the problem holder depending on your understanding of the problem....how 'bout you?

Best wishes,
Belina

[Diane Parker]

Thanks Belina,

Just a quick note to everyone to say I haven't forgotten - I am the holder of the Post-it notes that resulted from our brainstorm on how to make the AIN the best network in the solar system! I will capture all of this in a document and post asap but will be after the Bank Holiday if that's okay...

I liked the 'what's the link' exercise - finding a common link between two disparate objects to generate ideas - and then the simple process of going round as a group to make our mark against all of those madcap hare-brained ideas to come to a general consensus and see which ones generated the most 'love'. Great fun. Think of me drowning in Post-its, won't you. Hmm...

[Belina Raffy]

Thanks Diane! Looking forward to seeing the write up. Bon courage, mon amie!

[Diane Parker]

Hi everyone,

As promised, here are the results of the workshop brainstorm on April 20th (attached) - it was highly amusing revisiting some of these. My cat found those massive sheets of coloured post-its particularly fascinating...

I've presented them as a tag cloud - therefore the larger the font size, the more 'votes' received. Nice to see the emerging themes - I had a stab at trying to organise them but in the end I thought I would just use some pretty colours and let the themes speak for themselves!

[Belina Raffy]

Diane (and cat helper),

Thank you so much for the great write up! Can't wait to put some of these into practice.

Best wishes,
Belina